Shares of some top media companies were down at the close of trading: Disney fell $.20 or .7 percent, to $30.01. NY Times fell $.19 or 2.1 percent, to $8.65. News Corp fell $.59 or 4.0 percent, to $14.13. TimeWrn rs fell $.66 or 2.0 percent, to $31.64. Viacom fell $.76 or 2.4 percent, to $31.52.

Shares of some top media companies are down at noon: Disney fell $.29 or 1.0 percent, to $29.92. NY Times fell $.20 or 2.3 percent, to $8.64. News Corp fell $.69 or 4.7 percent, to $14.03. TimeWrn rs fell $.61 or 1.9 percent, to $31.69. Viacom fell $.73 or 2.3 percent, to $31.55.

As Geoffrey Fletcher himself describes it, he had been trying to get into the feature-film world "for years and years and years." Fletcher, now 39 and living in New York City, started playing with cameras when he was a youngster growing up in Waterford. He kept hoping that feature-film opportunities would open up even as he would occasionally find himself wondering if they really would.

Kathy Griffin, the comic behind "My Life on the D-List," is the devil. Some might consider her Satan after the redheaded 49-year-old performer accepted the first of her two Emmys in September 2007 with an unusual podium speech.

PARIS -- The bartender had long gray hair and the sleeves of his rumpled jacket rolled up to his forearms. Three women slouched on stools over Stella Artois beers at the end of the long, wooden bar. And so much was lost in translation during our drink orders that we first got a glass filled with Campari.

"The Wall Street Journal" reports that Africa-Israel Investments Ltd. has reached a tentative debt settlement for the old New York Time Buildings, which it acquired in 2007. Africa-Israel's US unit Africa-Israel Investments Inc. bought the building on Times Square in Manhattan for $525 million and then added $715 million in debt on the property.

Shares of some top media companies are down at noon: Disney fell $.65 or 2.1 percent, to $30.02. NY Times fell $.40 or 4.3 percent, to $8.85. News Corp fell $.33 or 2.2 percent, to $14.47. TimeWrn rs fell $.88 or 2.7 percent, to $31.95. Viacom fell $.94 or 2.9 percent, to $31.53.

Shares of some top media companies are down at 10 a.m.: Disney fell $.64 or 2.1 percent, to $30.03. NY Times fell $.29 or 3.1 percent, to $8.96. News Corp fell $.29 or 2.0 percent, to $14.51. TimeWrn rs fell $1.02 or 3.1 percent, to $31.80. Viacom fell $.81 or 2.5 percent, to $31.66.